A removable magnetic data storage cartridges incorporates
antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media and may be used with a data
drive to push the capacity point of removable hard platter based magnetic
storage to 35 GB for a single platter 2.5'' form factor product. The
removable magnetic data storage cartridges incorporating AFC media
represents an equivalent increase in the areal density of removable
magnetic data storage cartridges on the order of 13.times..